U.S. 2 - Brazil 2
PENALTY KICKS
U.S. 5 - Brazil 3
Yes, there's a World Cup going on right now.
Showing posts with label Team USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Team USA. Show all posts
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
By the power of shiny Tim Howard...
Team USA shall go out and kick some Algerian booty today!
Not literally kick someone's booty mind you... that'll get you a red card. Don't do that, Team USA. That would suck. More of a figurative kicking, as in kicking the ball into the goal. Their goal, please. Gotta be specific about these things.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
1996 Olympics Day 4
I'm going to speed through this issue so I can try to get the Day 5 magazine posted tonight and get caught up. This issue is dominated by swimming as is evident by Tom Dolan's cover photo. The cover story features the rivalry between Dolan and Eric Namesnik and their battle in the 400 individual medley. There's a couple of mentions of the Chinese swim team and the new anti-steroid rules that the writers seemed convinced were going to get the entire China contingent banned. The rules are detailed in the Scorecard section and they are pretty ridiculous. If four swimmers from a nation fail a drug test, all the swimmers from that country get a ban for four years. Even better, it's not the country where they are from that was important, but the nation where they trained. Sounds perfectly fair to me, I can't see how that could ever get abused by a nation sending a few scrub swimmers to train in a rival country only to purposefully get caught to wipe out their rival's entire program. Do the anti-doping nazis even think about the bass-ackward rules they make? Sheesh. Finally there is a great article on Janet Evans, which is completely ruined by an ad for toenail fungus medicine right in the middle of it. With graphic photo!
The other focus in the magazine is on the gymnastic team, with a one page article on the female squads and a photo essay on gymnasts' hands and feet. That is where the fungus ad should have gone. The United States takes the lead in the medal count with 2 golds and 10 overall. Poland has the most gold medals at 4 with some victories in judo and wrestling. Two days in, the United Kingdom is the nation that is most surprisingly not on the medal board, although Ireland has a gold medal.
Ben was right about Kosuke Fukudome playing in the 1996 Olympics. The third baseman (?!) is featured stretching for a line drive in the recap of Japan's 8-7 loss to powerhouse Cuba. Japan nearly knocked off the Cuban team for the first time in international competition since 1983, but the Cubans scored two runs in the bottom of the tenth. Legendary Cuban pitcher Pedro Luis Lazo faced off against Hitoshi Ono in the game which featured a mammoth home from from Cuban cleanup hitter Orestes Kindelan. The 521 foot homer was the longest in the history of Atlanta-Fulton County stadium. Think about that a minute. The women's softball team doesn't get a fancy write up but their victory over Puerto Rico is acknowledged with this photo of Dot Richardson celebrating after a homer.
Women's Softball - Team USA vs. Venezuela
Starting now on CNBC.
Check this team out while you can, it's one of the most dominating teams in the history of sports and thanks to the goddamn IOC assclowns, Softball is out of the 2012 games. I'm not a big fan of Title 9, but right now I'd like to smack the Olympics with it for cutting a popular female sport played worldwide for absolutely no reason at all.
Check this team out while you can, it's one of the most dominating teams in the history of sports and thanks to the goddamn IOC assclowns, Softball is out of the 2012 games. I'm not a big fan of Title 9, but right now I'd like to smack the Olympics with it for cutting a popular female sport played worldwide for absolutely no reason at all.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Olympics Day 3
I took one day off to watch some actual Olympic events and now I'm already hopelessly behind. It's not too bad, because this issue is admittedly more boring than the others. It's the first one that had pics of an actual event on the cover, so they chose... Tony Kukoc?
Croatia didn't even win the game, they got upset by Lithuania. I guess SI was hell bent on selling magazines with a name basketball player on the cover of this issue. The inside isn't that great either. The Scorecard section opens up with several redneck jokes and ticket horrors, cementing the theme of the "Good Ol' Boy" Olympics that plagued us until the bombing occurred. Then it was the "Incompetent Good Ol' Boy"Olympics. They threw in a story abut this Iranian woman who was in the air rifle competition, the first Iranian woman to compete in the Olympics since the revolution in 1979. The tone of the story is a bit odd as they try to simultaneously praise her as a victory for Women's Rights by the fact that she is there at all, while also gawking at the fact that she wears her headscarf and full dress even under her shooting jacket. Of course FOX news would run this today with the caption "ZOMG! MUSLIMS! WITH GUNS! AT THE OLYMPICS!!! TERROR THREAT!" so whateva.
The articles are a mix of semi current events and more prefab fluff pieces.The cover story is about how every other basketball team is playing for the silver.There's is in an inordinate amount of weepy stories. One told of a sixteen year old swimmer from New Zealand who cried after she was eliminated on the first day. Another told of Canadian rower Silken Laumman, who fought back and won a medal in Barcelona after her right leg had been torn to shreds months earlier in a recing accident. The best was about Angel Martino, a swimmer from Georgia who won America's first medal at the games, and how she gave the medal to Trisha Henry. Trisha was a volunteer at the games, a fellow swimmer who knew Angel from a swim camp, and had been diagnosed with cancer earlier that year. They mix in the ridiculous with the sublime though, with a photo essay on the 119 lbs and under weightlifting class. It would have been nice if there was an actual article to go along with the pictures, but instead they went for the "Hey, look at the little guys lifting weights!" angle instead.
This is the first issue with published results and medal counts. For the record, Germany led with five medals (2 silver, 3 bronze) and China was in second with 2 golds. On the results page we also find out that Halil Mutlu of Turkey was the champ of the 119 and under weightlifting final with 633.81 lbs. As far as USA goes, there's a recap of Argentina blowing out USA men's soccer, and the USA-Nicaragua baseball game at Atlanta-Fulton County stadium. Kris Benson pitched and won the game 4-1. Matt LeCroy and Chad Allen (above) are also mentioned in the article. See, there's a little baseball in these Olympic posts!
Croatia didn't even win the game, they got upset by Lithuania. I guess SI was hell bent on selling magazines with a name basketball player on the cover of this issue. The inside isn't that great either. The Scorecard section opens up with several redneck jokes and ticket horrors, cementing the theme of the "Good Ol' Boy" Olympics that plagued us until the bombing occurred. Then it was the "Incompetent Good Ol' Boy"Olympics. They threw in a story abut this Iranian woman who was in the air rifle competition, the first Iranian woman to compete in the Olympics since the revolution in 1979. The tone of the story is a bit odd as they try to simultaneously praise her as a victory for Women's Rights by the fact that she is there at all, while also gawking at the fact that she wears her headscarf and full dress even under her shooting jacket. Of course FOX news would run this today with the caption "ZOMG! MUSLIMS! WITH GUNS! AT THE OLYMPICS!!! TERROR THREAT!" so whateva.
The articles are a mix of semi current events and more prefab fluff pieces.The cover story is about how every other basketball team is playing for the silver.There's is in an inordinate amount of weepy stories. One told of a sixteen year old swimmer from New Zealand who cried after she was eliminated on the first day. Another told of Canadian rower Silken Laumman, who fought back and won a medal in Barcelona after her right leg had been torn to shreds months earlier in a recing accident. The best was about Angel Martino, a swimmer from Georgia who won America's first medal at the games, and how she gave the medal to Trisha Henry. Trisha was a volunteer at the games, a fellow swimmer who knew Angel from a swim camp, and had been diagnosed with cancer earlier that year. They mix in the ridiculous with the sublime though, with a photo essay on the 119 lbs and under weightlifting class. It would have been nice if there was an actual article to go along with the pictures, but instead they went for the "Hey, look at the little guys lifting weights!" angle instead.
This is the first issue with published results and medal counts. For the record, Germany led with five medals (2 silver, 3 bronze) and China was in second with 2 golds. On the results page we also find out that Halil Mutlu of Turkey was the champ of the 119 and under weightlifting final with 633.81 lbs. As far as USA goes, there's a recap of Argentina blowing out USA men's soccer, and the USA-Nicaragua baseball game at Atlanta-Fulton County stadium. Kris Benson pitched and won the game 4-1. Matt LeCroy and Chad Allen (above) are also mentioned in the article. See, there's a little baseball in these Olympic posts!
Friday, July 4, 2008
USA USA USA USA
It's 4th of July during an Olympic year, why not a bunch of jersey cards from Team USA to celebrate? The swatches are red, white and blue even.
No, I don't know how I ended up with two Conor Jackson USA jersey cards. Lucky, I guess.
No, I don't know how I ended up with two Conor Jackson USA jersey cards. Lucky, I guess.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)